Anna Nicole Smith Netflix Doc Explores Her "Complex” Life and Death

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Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me examines the precocious Playboy Playmate's beingness and death, including her matrimony to billionaire J. Howard Marshall. Watch the Netflix documentary's trailer.

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Anna Nicole Smith's bequest lives on.

The precocious exemplary has been memorialized in Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me, an upcoming documentary from Netflix centered astir her life. As seen successful a trailer released by the streamer April 17, the project shines a airy connected the broadside of Anna Nicole that galore were not privvy to earlier her 2007 death, including motherhood and her marriage to billionaire J. Howard Marshall.

"I privation audiences to recognize that Anna Nicole was a analyzable woman," manager Ursula Macfarlane told Netflix's Tudum. "She was idiosyncratic who supra each other wanted to beryllium a bully parent and a free-spirited exuberant pistillate who wanted to unrecorded beingness connected her ain terms."

But arsenic the filmmaker noted, Anna Nicole's beingness "is besides a cautionary communicative astir however the tendency for the American imagination tin swallow you up and spit you out, blurring your self-image and marque you suffer show of your authentic self."

To assistance archer the Playboy Playmate's story, the documentary will feature never-before-seen footage, location movies and interviews with cardinal figures from her interior circle.

"I consciousness similar galore erstwhile books and films astir Anna Nicole twisted her narrative," Ursula said, "so I felt fortunate to person entree to a wealthiness of audio and TV interviews including idiosyncratic telephone calls that progressive Anna Nicole. I truly consciousness similar she is telling her ain communicative successful her ain words."

She added that information from Anna Nicole's loved ones helps viewers "get person to her truth."

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The doc comes 16 years aft Anna Nicole passed distant from a lethal combination of medicine drugs astatine the property of 39. At the clip of her death, Anna Nicole was mourning the nonaccomplishment of her 20-year-old son Daniel Wayne Smith, who had died of an accidental cause overdose 5 months prior portion visiting the world prima and her newborn daughter Dannielynn Birkhead in the hospital.

Since Anna Nicole's passing, Dannielynn has grown up distant from the limelight and nether the attraction of her father, photographer Larry Birkhead

In September, Larry marked Dannielynn's 16th day with a heartfelt tribute praising the teen for enduring "tragedy, turmoil and a mates of babe tantrums."

"Many radical thought the likelihood were stacked against you, but possibly that was geared much towards maine than you," helium captioned photos of Dannielynn done the years on Instagram. "So arrogant to beryllium your Dad!"

Calling their beingness unneurotic a "wild ride," Larry added, "Mom is looking down!"

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me premieres May 16 connected Netflix.

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